Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:11:24 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change Message-ID: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:05:02 MST." <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> References: <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> <199902180458.VAA64976@harmony.village.org> <XFMail.990218151309.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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In message <199902180505.WAA65049@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: : Please review the following change to the select(2) man page: Actually, please review these changes. They are closer to english than the last one. Warner Index: select.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/imp/FreeBSD/CVS/src/lib/libc/sys/select.2,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 select.2 --- select.2 1998/08/24 01:09:34 1.11 +++ select.2 1999/02/18 05:09:01 @@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ by the .Fn select call. +Other systems may modify timeout, but no current ones do it by default. +A future, different system call might modify timeval, but too much legacy +code exists which depends on this behavior. +Therefore, +.Fn select +will likely never change to modify timeout. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn select To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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